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Cover Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention

Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention

A Guide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts

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Editors:
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
and
Morten Bøås

Using insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention and conflict across the world, this book provides essential practical guidance, discussion of mistakes, key reflections and raises important questions for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent and closed contexts.

Publisher:
Bristol University Press
Publication Date:
04 Jun 2020
Online ISBN:
9781529206913
Series:
Spaces of Peace, Security and Development
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529206913
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Front Matter
Front Matter
1: Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention into Violent and Closed Contexts
Part I: Control and Confusion
2: Shifting Identities, Policy Networks, and the Practical and Ethical Challenges of Gaining Access to the Field in Interventions
3: Interpretivist Methods and Military Intervention Research: Using Interview Research to De-centre the ‘Intervener’
4: The Interview as a Cultural Performance and the Value of Surrendering Control
5: Unequal Research Relationships in Highly Insecure Places: Of Fear, Funds and Friendship
Part II: Security and Risk
6: The Politics of Safe Research in Violent and Illiberal Contexts
7: The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork in Post-conflict Environments: The Dilemmas of a Vocational Approach
8: Challenges of Research in an Active Conflict Environment
9: On Assessing Risk Assessments and Situating Security Advice: The Unsettling Quest for ‘Security Expertise’
10: Being Watched and Being Handled
Part III: Distance and Closeness
11: Positioning in an Insecure Field: Reflections on Negotiating Identity
12: A Different Form of Intervention? Revisiting the Role of Researchers in Post-war Contexts
13: The Road to Darfur: Ethical and Practical Challenges of Embedded Research in Areas of Open Conflict
14: Interpretation by Proxy? Interpretive Fieldwork with Local Associates in Areas of Restricted Research Access
Part IV: Sex and Sensitivity
15: Sex Workers and Sugar Babies: Empathetic Engagement with Vulnerable Sources
16: Lifting the Burden? The Ethical Implications of Studying Exemplary, Not Pathological, Wartime Sexual Conduct
17: Unexpected Grey Areas, Innuendo and Webs of Complicity: Experiences of Researching Sexual Exploitation in UN Peacekeeping Missions
18: Sexual Exploitation, Rape and Abuse as a Narrative and a Strategy
19: Ten Things to Consider Before, During and After Fieldwork in a Violent or Closed Context
Back Matter
Index

Using detailed insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention and conflict, this handbook provides essential practical guidance for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent, repressive and closed contexts.

Contributors detail their own experiences from areas including the Congo, Sudan, Yemen, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Myanmar, inviting readers into their reflections on mistakes and hard-learned lessons. Divided into sections on issues of control and confusion, security and risk, distance and closeness and sex and sensitivity, they look at how to negotiate complex grey areas and raise important questions that intervention researchers need to consider before, during and after their time on the ground.

Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is Reader in Peacebuilding in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University.

Morten Bøås is Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI).

Author/Editor details at time of book publication.

Copyright:
© Bristol University Press 2020
Hardback ISBN:
9781529206883
Paperback ISBN:
9781529206890
ePub ISBN:
9781529206920
Online ISBN:
9781529206913
Page Extent:
308
Keywords:
international intervention; conflict; the Congo; Sudan; Yemen; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Myanmar; intervention research
Global Social Challenges:
Conflict, Security and Peace, Democracy, Power and Governance
Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Subject:
Human Geography, Development Geography, Politics and International Relations, International Relations, Political Analysis and Methods, Social Research Methods and Research Practices, Qualitative Methods, Social Research Methods
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